Tuesday: The day in photos

A Palestinian doctor exits the operating room while a 4-year-old Palestinian boy, Abdullah Shawwa, 4, undergoes surgery for a kidney tumor, an operation performed by U.S. doctors in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. In addition to dealing with shapnel injuries and bullet wounds, doctors from the U.S. who rushed to the Gaza Strip after the recent conflict find themselves operating on patients who fell victim to a 20-month-border closure that crippled the healthcare system.  (Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press)

Masked Bahrainis carry a tire and boxes during scuffles with riot police in Jidhafs, near the capital of Manama. The clashes in several villages stem from the arrest of three prominent Shiite Muslim activists on charges of promoting regime change through terrorism.  (Hasan Jamali / Associated Press)

Tents are erected for displaced Palestinians in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.  (Olivier Laban-Mattei / AFP/Getty Images)

Frost forms on a window during the cold winter weather in Clarence, N.Y.  (David Duprey / Associated Press)

Stuttgart’s Roberto Hilbert, left, and Munich’s Philipp Lahm, right, compete for the ball during the German soccer cup DFB Pokal match between VfB Stuttgart and FC Bayern Munich in Stuttgart, Germany.  (Matthias Schrader / Associated Press)

The Arizona Cardinals’ Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie leaps over teammate Ralph Brown during Super Bowl XLIII media day at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla.  (David Kadlubowski / Associated Press)

A model wears one of the creations that are part of the Zuhair Murad spring-summer 2009 collection presented during the Paris Fashion Week.  (Lucas Dolega / EPA)

Fabio Capello, coach of the English national soccer team, watches a dancer performing during a TV show in Milan, Italy. Capello will attend AC Milan’s match against Genoa to assess David Beckham’s form. Beckham is hoping to be called up for a match against Spain on Feb. 11, allowing him to equal Bobby Moore’s record of 108 appearances for the English team.  (Giuseppe Aresu / Associated Press)

The sun sets on Brighton Beach during a heat wave in Melbourne, Australia. Temperature has been topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and no signs of cooling are in sight; Melbourne hasn’t had four consecutive days above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1908, but it could break that record this week.  (Scott Barbour / Getty Images)

A man walks to his house in a flooded street of Samano, in northern Spain. The Brazomar River flooded the region following torrential rains.  (Alberto Aja / EPA)

An Israel Antiquities Authority worker holds an ancient figurine found near Jerusalem’s Old City. Israeli archaeologists say they discovered a rare 1,800-year-old figurine in a Jerusalem excavation. Dating from the time of the Roman Empire, the 2-inch marble bust depicts the head of a man with a short curly beard and almond-shaped eyes.  (Sebastian Scheiner / Associated Press)

Eva Djordjevic, a Serbian Jew who last saw her father outside a concentration camp in Serbia during the Holocaust, stands in front of a monument during a ceremony to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day in Belgrade.  (Srdjan Ilic / Associated Press)

School is not in session in Zimbabwe, where the Zimbabwean government deferred the opening of schools by two weeks in order to facilitate the marking of exam papers following a strike by teachers.  (Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi / Associated Press)

Roger Federer had little trouble focusing on his quarterfinal match in the Australian Open in Melbourne. He defeated Argentinean Juan Martin Del Potro, 6-3, 6-0, 6-0.  (Oliver Weiken / EPA)

At a rally in front of European Union council headquarters in Brussels, supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran movement show their support for a decision by EU foreign ministers to remove the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, the armed wing of the France-based NCRI, from the EU terrorist list. Founded in 1965 with the aim of overthrowing the U.S.-backed shah and then the Islamic regime in Iran, the PMOI has in the past operated an armed group inside Iran.  (Domonique Faget / AFP / Getty Images)

Delegates to a Russian Orthodox Church council hold a session at the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. About 700 delegates, including 200 bishops of Russian Orthodox Church, will elect a new Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.  (Sergei Chirikov / EPA)

Sudanese children look on from a bus shortly after arriving in Timisoara, Romania. According to the United Nations, a group of 42 Sudanese refugees who have been stranded in a makeshift camp in the Iraqi desert were moved to Timisoara to wait for their resettlement applications to be processed.  (Mircea Opris / Associated Press)

Fireworks light up Victoria Harbor in celebration of the year of the ox in Hong Kong. The annual display marked the second day of the lunar new year.  (Mike Clarke / AFP / Getty Images)